What do you want to know? What do you wish you knew?

EMAIL so it's international! One partner. TWO emails- one sent out, one replied to.

Important! If you are joining, post your age category in the comments on this swap! I'd like for us to talk more openly across 'age lines,' especially when media seems so dead-set on turning us against each other.

18-30 31-50 51+

No swap minimums, just a well-filled out profile. If a person flakes on you, message me and rate them appropriately.

Your email has two parts:

• Two things you would like to know! How do you think they work right now? What do you want to find out? Does the partner have any advice?

• Two things you wished you had known before. Are you past your partner's age group? What did you wish you had known when you were in their age group?

THIS MEANS YOU WILL RESPOND TO THAT EMAIL!

• If you do not have advice or insight on that subject, just say so. That's okay! You don't need to know everything!

If the questions seem mental or physical health related, you can always point to professional sources and resources. But if the question is something like "how do you deal with losing ability to navigate your home easily," that's different, yeah?

Have fun. Remember that all answers are an individual person's perspective, subject to their environment, upbringing, social status, gender, income, etc.

This is about getting insight into other people and how they think, not a manual on "what you are supposed to do" or should have done. There is no right or wrong here.

I do ask that no one proselytizes. Do not attempt to convert anyone to a religion or even passive-aggressively imply that all these life problems go away upon converting to whoever. This is not a place for recruiting to a religion or a "spiritual" group.

Your personal decisions based on your religious ideas are certainly fine to discuss! Implying that others will or should adhere to those same ideas is not.